Record ID: PUBLIC-40A856
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flake. Black/grey flint. Cortex reforming. Medium bulb of percussion with flaking scars. Signs of later damage on right mesial and distal end.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd July 2013
No spatial data available.

Record ID: PUBLIC-E9B3F9
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Paleolithic uncertain tool - possibly a scraper dating from circa 200,000 to 10,000 BC.. The tool is sub-oval in plan with an area of cortex at one end. The dorsal surface has a roughly central ridge with a shorter ridge to the side. The ventral surface is smooth and slightly dished, with the bulb of percussion at the opposite end to the cortex. The edges appear retouched to all except the cortex. The colour is mainly white with red andgrey marks and a red oval area runs along the central ridge, and it is not opaque. The object is 66.53 mm long, 36.10mm wide & 11.71mm thick…
Created on: Sunday 18th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-E9DF0C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete possibly Late Paleolithic uncertain tool - possible a knife or scraper dating from circa 100,000 to 10,000 BC.. The tool is sub-oval in plan with a straight edge on one end - possibly a break. The dorsal surface has a roughly central ridge curving to the left at the rounded end, with an inverted y-shaped ridge at the straight end. The ventral surface is smooth, with the bulb of percussion at the straight end. The edges appear retouched to all except the straight (broken) end. The colour is mainly white with grey and brown marks, and it is not opaque. The object is 72.02mm…
Created on: Sunday 18th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-E23795
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stout flake of marbled brown flint, struck off a plain platform. The dorsal surface carries a very similar negative hard hammer removed flake scar, suggesting the knapper was carrying out a repetitive sequence of strikes; each one being made nearly 10mm deeper into the platform than the last. There is considerable retouch around the margin and some of it is likely to be abrasion after deposition but as well as the ventral and dorsal scars there are related groups of bold and even removals implying a multi-task tool. On the left margin from the proximal end and seen from the dorsal s…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haven', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-BB2708
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small biface of marbled brown flint. The tool has bilateral symmetry in plan and looks like a handaxe but is very small. It appears to have been modified or broken down from a larger tool. A segment of one of the straight converging margins has been removed by a hard normal strike, leaving it blunt. The opposite converging margin has a large notch ground into it. The convex plan tip between these margins is sharp and shallowly retouched; reinforcing the handaxe theory. The 'ventral' side has truncated mostly soft hammer struck converging flake scars wheras the other side has some s…
Created on: Monday 27th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horrid Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-672020
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scraper made on a very stout hard hammer struck cortical flake from the end of a nodule of Bullhead flint. It is distinguished by its' greenish cortex( albeit still stained by algae on this specimen) and orangey brown outer layer to the flint inside. The scraper retouch around the distal end is abrupt and just enough to remove the cortex. It is more regular than edge damage and forms 3 straight edges. Further flakes around the periphery appear to have been removed for aesthetic reasons to improve bilateral symmetry. This feature is on another cortical scraper found in this deposit(6…
Created on: Thursday 23rd August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horrid Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8B54B5
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scraper formed on a flake struck from the cortex of a nodule of marbled brown flint. The striking platform and bulb of percussion have been removed and the plan of the piece has been given bilateral symmetry by abrupt and semi-abrupt removals at the margin.The useable scraper edge runs around all but the back of the tool; which is blunted for a good grip. Another cortical scraper with deliberate symmetry and attention to forming a good hold found in this deposit is CORN-672020, (655.2).
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horrid Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8CEE58
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tool worked from a large flat flake of marbled brown flint.The dorsal surface is an even larger transverse truncated scar. The distal end has remaining nodular cortex.This has been retouched with short stepped scars as an end scraper.The proximal end has been narrowed with abrupt retouch to form a tang to perhaps haft into a bome handle, but it is quite easy to grip without this. The right margin is thin and is retouched or damaged. It is still straight and may have been used as a knife.
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horrid Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-90D4F5
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thick pointed flake of marbled brown flint struck from a prepared nodule. Prior to removal from a plain platform steep transverse flakes were struck off which this tool shows truncated from the right side. The ventral surface and platform show 2 complete bulbs of percussion and 2 other strikes. Rather than poor technique this may be a way of producing large, broad and flat flakes. Multiple bulbs of percussion occur on some other flakes from this deposit. The butt has been boldly thinned from the left and the proximal end to make a good hold in the fist. There is blunting on the mesa…
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horrid Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-D0ABF5
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bifacially flaked flint handaxe dating from the Lower Palaeolithic c.800,000-250,000 BC. Description: The handaxe is quite crude but is roughly pointed with a wide rounded butt. It has been bifacially worked, with flaking cover both sides, this has been uneven however leaving one side much thicker than the other and the thinner side being slightly concave. The flint is heavily patinated a white to beige-white and the internal flint where visible is a mid grey-beige. It has been rolled on the surface causing damage to the desert gloss by glacial frost. There are serval areas of furth…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-5F99F7
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An Acheulian culture flint biface (handaxe) of Palaeolithic age, in fine condition. The implement has the characteristic flattened base or 'bout coupé' of Neanderthal manufacture. Both sides of the biface have been invasively flaked consistent with soft-hammer percussion. The implement is uniformly patinated in a light creamy colour. It appears to be complete and in original condition. The biface was found on a field surface in West Sussex. It has been examined by Dr Nick Ashton, Curator of the Department of Prehistory at the British Museum, who has confirmed that it is Neanderthal…
Created on: Friday 30th September 2011
Last updated: Sunday 25th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHICHESTER', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-758BD1
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
The front half of a handaxe that has apparently fallen apart due to thermal cracking after long exposure out of its deposit. It was found within 40 metres of another example (Public-50EB23) which was nearly complete but suffering from similar cracking. Otherwise the fragment is lightly rolled and lustrous with a deep tan stain. The plan of the forward end is of pointed ovate; more pointed than the other example, but otherwise of similar proportions and similarly robust with bold invasive flakes feathering into each other and partially removing previous deeper scars. this suggests …
Created on: Friday 23rd August 2013
Last updated: Friday 25th October 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-0AF876
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A complete, biface, pointed flint handaxe of Lower Palaeolithic date (400,000 - 250,000 BC for London). One face is approximately flat, whilst the other is steeply convex at the butt-end (a D-shaped cross section), lessening towards the tip. The surface has a mottled orangey/brown patina, and there is no cortex remaining. An area of damage near the tip suggests that the flint was originally grey in colour. The axe is in 'rolled' or abraded condition with an overall glossy patina. The flint has been worked bifacially, with both faces showing numerous, multi-directional flake removals. …
Created on: Monday 9th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-50EB23
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
A large ovate handaxe in brown, river-stained flint; complete but for part of the butt broken after deposition but showing some patination. 2 thermal spall pits are on one side meeting the distal edge. A pot-lid pit is also on the opposite side towards the butt. The axe has many thermal cracks and might have broken up soon from exposure. One side had barnacles and the axe has lain on a shingle bank for some time, exposed by low tide. The piece is all over invasively flaked with feathered terminations indicating a good soft hammer technique. There is a little flint nodule cortex on th…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2012
Last updated: Friday 21st March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haven', grid reference and parish protected.